A natural consequence of the widespread adoption of XML as standard for information representation and exchange is the redundant storage of large amounts of persistent XML documen...
XML is a flexible and powerful tool that enables information and security sharing in heterogeneous environments. Scalable technologies are needed to effectively manage the growing...
Rebecca Cathey, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen,...
Historical information can be effectively preserved using XML and searched through powerful historical queries written in XQuery. Indeed, by storing the successive versions of a d...
Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Xin Zhou, Hyun J. Moo...
The aggregated structure of documents plays a key role in full-text, multimedia, and network Information Retrieval (IR). Considering aggregation provides new querying facilities a...
We compare standard global IR searching with user-centric localized techniques to address the database selection problem. We conduct a series of experiments to compare the retriev...